Le Colonel Neville s’habille Tojours Pour le Diner. Semper Fi. Thomas Sowell: "There are three questions that I think would destroy most of the arguments on the left. The first is compared to what? The second is at what cost and the third is what hard evidence do you have?” Live free or die or both. Satirical empirical conservative. No, really.
Mike does Dirty Diana. One of my favourite Mike toons with it's coiled and sprung beat. When I lived in Taiwan in 1990, Diana was on very high island and personal rotation along with Liberian Girl. Ah, the night market moon walk and a beer with a snake blood chaser. "Oh no!" Hey, speaking of belly crawling reptiles, Obama says no to “interfering in Iran” and siding with the young against psychopathic Islamofascists. Got it. But yes to being on the side of Chavez, Ortega and the Castro Twins and interfering with the Honduran Congress attempts to stop an old-time Latin rhumba leftard dictatorship for life. AH, nuance and real politic Obambi style.
Dirty Diana. Michael Jackson.
"Oh no...Oh no...Oh no...
You'll never make me stay So take your weight off of me I know your every move So won't you just let me be I've been here times before But I was too blind to see That you seduce every man This time you won't seduce me
She's saying that's ok Hey baby do what you please I have the stuff the you want I am the thing that you need She looked me deep in the eyes She's touchin' me so to start She says there's no turnin' back She trapped me in her heart
Dirty Diana, nah Dirty Diana, nah Dirty Diana, no Dirty Diana Let me be! Oh no...
She likes the boys in the band She knows when they come to town Every musician's fan after the curtain comes down She waits at backstage doors For those who have prestige Who promise fortune and fame A life that's so carefree
She's says that's ok Hey baby do what you want I'll be your night lovin' thing I'll be the freak you can taunt And I don't care what you say I want to go too far I'll be your everything If you make me a star
Dirty Diana, nah Dirty Diana, nah Dirty Diana, no
She said I have to go home 'Cause I'm real tired, you see But I hate sleepin' alone Why don't you come with me I said my baby's at home She's probably worried tonight I didn't call on the phone to Say that I'm alright
Diana walked up to me, She said I'm all yours tonight At that I ran to the phone Sayin' baby I'm alright I said but unlock the door. Because I forgot the key. She said he's not coming back Because he's sleeping with me
Dirty Diana, nah Dirty Diana, nah."
ALLAHPUNDIT at hotair: “Jacko’s dad on son’s death: Hey, be sure to check out my new record label. Tales of Joe Jackson’s brutality towards his kids are legendary, but it’s one thing to read about it and another to see the callousness in action.”
“Yeah it’s bin tuff. Remember we just lost the biggest super star in the world.”
Child abusing dirt bag Joe Jackson. Ah, and Joe puts in a good word for Reverend Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, two premier venal lifetime parasites and grievance opportunist uber-frauds.
Kruthammer nails Honduras and Obama’s pro-Marxist anti-Congressional venality. There is no one and I do mean NO ONE, that Obama would not throw under the bus for applause.
“A rule of thumb is that whenever you find yourself on the side of Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega and the Castro twins, you are to re-examine your assumptions.”
Colonel Neville: Could Carol be any browner? Nobody ever read the phony stimulus bill and the cap and trade mega fraud pusher hasn’t read her pet scam either. "I've read vast portions of it," energy czar Carol Browner said of the bill.” Five stars for obvious bullshit.
Via mcclatchydc: “...among Afghanistan's increasingly educated and media-savvy younger generation. Student groups denounced the newspaper's closure and refused to hold their tongues in public.
Mohammed Faqiri, the spokesman for Herat University's "New Generation Club," admits that his group has some pretty advanced views for young people in a traditional Muslim nation, but he said he's sure that his group is in the mainstream on one issue: Iran.
"The Iranian government has finally exposed itself as a theocratic, totalitarian regime," said Faqiri, 23, a leader of the organization of a dozen students who meet secretly once a week because the Afghan government frowns on their independent political activities.
"Iranian leaders are trying to hang onto power by killing people and destroying their free media."
Was Mike so great after the Jackson 5, 12 or 45? Apparently so.
The following are some of the incredible achievements of Michael Jackson. Can ya do better kid, huhn? Well can ya? Comment: "TruthHound:
Most Successful Concert Series - Guiness Book Of World Records.
Michael Jackson sold out for seven nights at Wembley Stadium, London, England in the summer of 1988. A total of 504,000 people saw Michael perform July 14-16, 22-23, and August 26-27, 1988.
Biggest Selling Album Of All Time - Guiness Book Of World Records
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” Album is the biggest selling album of all time, with over 50 million copies sold worldwide. Thriller is also the biggest selling U.S album with sales of 25 million copies.
80’s Most #1 Hits. By The End of the 1980’s MIchael Jackson had more #1 hits than any other artist for the decade.
Awards. Michael has more awards than any other artist.
Entertainer Of The Decade. With the #1 (Thriller)and #2 (Bad) ranked albums in the world Michael was the 1980’s
Entertainer Of The Decade. Most Grammy Awards - Guiness Book Of World Records. Michael won a record breaking 8 Grammy Awards in 1984, more than any other artist in one year.
Largest Contracts - Guiness Book Of World Records. $890 million (Sony Music). Contract, with prospective earnings of $1 billion.
Greatest Audience - Guiness Book Of World Records. The highest-ever viewership was 133.4 million viewers watching the NBC transmission of Super Bowl XXVII on June 31, 1993. Michael was spotlighted during the half-time peformance.
Highest-Paid Commercial Spokesperson - Guiness Book Of World Records. Pepsi Cola paid Michael Jackson $12 million to do 4 TV commercials.
Bad Tour - Guiness Book Of World Records. Michael Jackson’s world tour brought in a record gross revenue of over $124 million during September 1987-December 1988.
100 Million Records. Michael has sold over 100 million singles and albums outside of the U.S.
Billboard Charts. Michael Jackson is the first person in the 37 year history of the chart to enter at # 1, with his single “You Are Not Alone”. Michael broke his previous redord held by his single “Earth Song” which debuted at #5.
Biggest Selling Video. Michael Jackson’s “The Making Of Thriller” is the biggest selling video to be released by an artist.
Billboard “Hot 100” Singles Chart. Most #1 Hits by Male Artist (13)
#1 Debuts. Michael’s “Bad”, “Dangerous”, and “HIStory” albums all debuted at #1.
Consecutive #1 Singles. Jackson 5 were the first group to ever have four consecutive #1 singles.
#1 On Charts. In 1983 Michael became the first artist to simultaneously hold the number one spots on Billboard’s rock albums and rock singles charts, as well as the R&B albums and singles charts.
First Video. Michael Jackson was the first black artist to have a video aired on MTV."
The Story Of Life. For what it's worth, here’s four of my sub-budget efforts with the wrong people at the wrong place and at the wrong time. Ain’t that much of life?
"KING OF POP Michael Jackson died last night after a massive heart attack. He collapsed and stopped breathing after an apparent injection of a powerful painkiller named Demerol. Jacko was said to be addicted to the drug - similar to morphine - and it is feared he took an overdose." A very interesting report via British newspaper The Sun.
"For a while, he liked to hang out at Disneyland with Mickey Mouse, one of the few A-list celebrities with whom he had anything in common - not least the white gloves, squeaky voice, snub nose, bizarre albino face bearing no relation to the jet black surround, and a penchant for hanging out with kids even though you’re well into middle age."
Colonel Neville: Why is that so impossible to hear? It's true. But it is kinda ah, weird, eh? It’s an ordinary and extraordinary thing that ordinary people die. It happens every moment. What is it when extraordinary people die? It’s the same and yet it’s not is it? Jesus Christ, it’s not just reactions that are either ordinary and or extraordinary. Whatever way you cut it, it’s a rotten drag that the great, great and rather er, odd talent known as Michael Jackson has died, and I imagine he’s feeling damn disappointed too. And Farrah Fawcett Major and Ed McMahon too.
Believe me, death is usually fucking crap and comes with few very laughs, and whenever truly great talents die well, it does have a certain resonance similar in many ways to the kind that one can sometimes only experiences in the middle of a long night.
I don’t care if stars are allegedly or definitely totally washed up, I don’t need celebrities to die to get my kicks. I should be half as washed up as some of them or should I? Nope. I can kick small animals for that. However dull stars may become even if they’re as dull as me, I wish all of 'em that I dug were still around, though alive course. And gee, I do note that Jackson and many others, seem to have achieved a little more than me. No really.
Sure I did that outstanding bathroom tiling, but does it really compare? Even with the splendid grouting. You should see the new tea towel rack...
The fact is, can a massive talent like Michael Jackson ever really be washed up? Nope per se. It’s laughable to see what he could do and most others can’t, and not think well, what else is there to do? Not much, and not necessarily illegal. Well, something musically current and cutting I guess. Ah, there's "nothing more dated than the latest thing," as they say.
OK, for Mike it sure had been a long weird twilight of often re-hash while seemingly decked out in the wardrobe department of the old TV show Dallas and a funeral wholesaler from Dubai. I'm sure he could have come up with some cool new material if he could just ah... But we’ll never know now, eh?
People forget that like movie stars, pop stars just need some great new material to make the corny cliché of the “comeback". And unlike most movie stars who cannot create an original screenplay at all, Jackson could write and perform all that damn great and not so great stuff out of himself and as they say:
“a genius is someone who does easily what most others find difficult or impossible.”
Jackson had already done enough for just about anybody. And if he came up with some more swingin’ tunes, there ya go again.
There was nothing about peformance that Mike didn't know. I loved that he could sing at the top of the range with real punch, and his act always roared into town. His ability to put everything into a song: the instantly recognisable intro, verse, marvellous hooks, grooves, feel, sound, tempo and those fantastic changes and bridges. My, my. The urge to move that everyone gets when they hear a Jackson toon NEVER fades.
Now like most pop musicians regards the real and harsh world, once Jackson went beyond the personal and human condition, Mike usually had little to say of any real depth or meaning beyond well, ersatz concerns and boilerplate. Celebrities default most often to standard teenage babblings, spouting what is almost invariably sans any actual insight requiring any serious effort. Sya like reading books or gaining actual qualifications and experience in their entireley predictable pet subjects. No really.
Now I find nostalgia a draining sentimental bore, and it's a little unfair, but it’s a little amusing that acts that are allegedly so hot are rarely if ever anywhere near what Jackson is as a "wash up", or what he did before he was even a teenager. There’s room for everybody but sometimes it is to laugh, eh? Maybe some folks lack not just the often essential key driver of a poverty stricken to plain old poor background like Mike’s family had. Or for that matter the contrived lunacy and the actual insanity, though most celbrities actually are nuts,just plain dumb or both.
I aspire to be as good as Jackson. That’s Tony Jackson the fruiterer.
Jesus, I really just can’t stand going into the disturbing celebrity loon life of Jackson or this post will never end. Like the VERY alleged creepy claustrophobic kiddie frolics, the freaky disturbing Islam thing and the splastic disturbery and so on ad nauseum.
Now I don't think of the MSM as a reliable source of anything much worth a damn but unintentional laughs, frustration, nausea and tedium, but two of Mike's signature motifs have some rather startling evidence, don't they? And with his dimwitted brother saying "may Allah be with you," I imagine Michael's personal Islamic creepfest would fit in nicely and be right up his alley barbar.
Here's the thang: the only way Mike's kiddie fiddling could not be true is if none of it's true. Sadly, this is virtually impossible and a massive Himalaya of disturbing evidence says that it is true. Fifty years-old and apparently not ONE authentic, vaguely normal adult relationship with an adult female or adult male for that matter. Two laughable fake beard marriages, and a major investment being a strange park, an oddly sterile looking bad taste joint that brought endless children to the peculiarly kitcho world of Michael Jackson, the pie eyed piper of Neverland.
Why would an adult want to spend that much time with kids? They ain't that much fun especially after the first exhausting day of school holidays, are they? So your first and most natural reaction would be? Something was very, very, very well, criminally wrong.
Ya know outside of their specialty, celebrities can be tedious and ineffective misfits and thus award winning. I should be so lucky. I just have tedious and ineffective anonymity and no riches. Celebrities usually have identical dumber than dog hair leftard opinions and are commonly surrounded by repellent and gloomy parasites and not just their parents. But that’s show biz. What an enormous talent Michael Jackson was and what a freaking loss. Literally. Go figure.
While momentous events happen that will seriously effect our lives, the zeitgeist is "Drowning in Jackson."
More Steyn on Jackson: "Life and Death. "I thought he had a sad life. And he was a conspicuous victim of a very unpleasant and dysfunctional childhood."
“For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish. Here is the means of showing that the immigrant communities can organize to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant and the ill-informed have provided. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood.”Enoch Powell in 1968.
When I was a boy, I had a fondness for maps. Sorry, that’s from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, but then so were many parts of my sub-Lord of the Flies childhood. What, me resort to hyperbole? Never I say! But you can dig it cos I know you’re hip. My parents were working-class English people, there was no Internet and a very limited access to journals, papers, articles, books and especially great and independent minds. Not so now.
I remember people saying Enoch Powell was well, fill in the ad hominem. I never actually got to hear what he had said, or what and why it was allegedly not true. Nor was their any counter-evidence ever provided. Another telling fact is that the fatuous auto-shouting of "racist!" at Enoch, was a perennial stock in trade of the standard leftard mass comedian of the time. As Chris Hitchen's said, the "George Bush is stupid!" joke is "the stupid joke that all stupid people can laugh at."
This is done by people who wish to be above the problematic gaucheness of unpleasant and harsh facts, while maintaining their stylish moral vanity. The dangerous realities of a brave new suicide by multicultism is after all, largely for those least able to afford to live in a neighbourhood mostly without it. What a coincidence! Just like the one's favoured by those who advocate its unfettered and remorseless advance.
Such accepted mass drivel absolves the said human parrot from ever thinking seriously about anything serious at all. Go figure.
"Oh I love cultural diversity! We have a lovely Chinese neuro-surgeon in our street and then there's that wonderful Thai restaurant we simply love!"Middle-class multiculturalism.
"He's got a knife! Please don't hurt me. Why are you doing this?!"Working-class multiculturalism.
So today I read the entire transcript of Powell's absurdly misquoted speech, so widely judged in absentia of most any critic having read it. The average hack calls it the “rivers of blood” speech, just like the hack before and the one before that ad nauseum.
Powell never says that but quotes eloquently an ancient "Roman", namely Virgil, as shown above. But then “the River Tiber foaming with much blood,” would not fit the paradigm, and is perhaps beyond the intellectual energy level of the average logical fallacy prone and posturing critic.
[Not in the same league of such paid journalistic mediocrity is the absurdly laughable, and as per usual named “Anonymous." Exhibit A as he is known, has been pointlessly posting weakling comments devoid of any sense of self-respect or ability to focus feebly on any actual issue at hand, all apparently to fill in his endless and empty hours. Go figure. But I digress.]
Here's a smilingly presented vid by a Muslim guy on how Muslims are gee, excellent at putting on an entirely different faces for the infidels! No! Really? Who would have thought.. Oh the creeping irony.
Hey, I have done only a little background research on Mr Powell and of course, he missed out on the joy of Islam. [Link to the fab barenakedislam.] So whatever flaws he has, I do only have so much time, what with letting the bath overflow onto the carpet an’ all. No really. What a disaster. Ironically there were rivers of bath water.
But the fact is that I dig this speech. Enoch Powell wrote this in 1968 and he was entirely correct on every count except one: everything is far, far worse than he could have ever conceived of. It's an insane and wilfully deluded idea that the Marxist ideology of PC self-loathing, via the powerful elites false god of multiculturalism, could ever lead to anything but disaster. But then it WAS deliberate, wasn't it?
Reading the speech now, it’s as if it was written in hindsight for a dystopian novel set in a not so distant past about a not so far off future. The cliché is that “the past is a foreign country.” Enoch predicted with astounding clear minded precision, the natural results of a suicidal trajectory that was set in place decades ago. ALL of Enoch's phony critics were completely WRONG, as the political correct ironically always are, while Enoch Powell was completely CORRECT.
The way things empirically are today prove beyond any serious and intelligent doubt, that the present is a literally foreign country and that the future is going to be utterly and viciously alien. Of course there's a negative side too...
Colonel Neville.
Via islamophobesunited: And here's concessions to "the filth", as Chris Hitchen's called the Koran. [Link to the swinging concessionstoislam.]
'This is the full text of Enoch Powell’s so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, which was delivered to a Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham on April 20 1968.
"The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature.
One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: at each stage in their onset there is room for doubt and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary. By the same token, they attract little attention in comparison with current troubles, which are both indisputable and pressing: whence the besetting temptation of all politics to concern itself with the immediate present at the expense of the future.
Above all, people are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles: “If only,” they love to think, “if only people wouldn’t talk about it, it probably wouldn’t happen.”
Perhaps this habit goes back to the primitive belief that the word and the thing, the name and the object, are identical.
At all events, the discussion of future grave but, with effort now, avoidable evils is the most unpopular and at the same time the most necessary occupation for the politician. Those who knowingly shirk it deserve, and not infrequently receive, the curses of those who come after.
A week or two ago I fell into conversation with a constituent, a middle-aged, quite ordinary working man employed in one of our nationalised industries.
After a sentence or two about the weather, he suddenly said: “If I had the money to go, I wouldn’t stay in this country.” I made some deprecatory reply to the effect that even this government wouldn’t last for ever; but he took no notice, and continued: “I have three children, all of them been through grammar school and two of them married now, with family. I shan’t be satisfied till I have seen them all settled overseas. In this country in 15 or 20 years’ time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.”
I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation?
The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so. Here is a decent, ordinary fellow Englishman, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me, his Member of Parliament, that his country will not be worth living in for his children.
I simply do not have the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking – not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history.
In 15 or 20 years, on present trends, there will be in this country three and a half million Commonwealth immigrants and their descendants. That is not my figure. That is the official figure given to parliament by the spokesman of the Registrar General’s Office.
There is no comparable official figure for the year 2000, but it must be in the region of five to seven million, approximately one-tenth of the whole population, and approaching that of Greater London. Of course, it will not be evenly distributed from Margate to Aberystwyth and from Penzance to Aberdeen. Whole areas, towns and parts of towns across England will be occupied by sections of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population.
As time goes on, the proportion of this total who are immigrant descendants, those born in England, who arrived here by exactly the same route as the rest of us, will rapidly increase. Already by 1985 the native-born would constitute the majority. It is this fact which creates the extreme urgency of action now, of just that kind of action which is hardest for politicians to take, action where the difficulties lie in the present but the evils to be prevented or minimised lie several parliaments ahead.
The natural and rational first question with a nation confronted by such a prospect is to ask: “How can its dimensions be reduced?” Granted it be not wholly preventable, can it be limited, bearing in mind that numbers are of the essence: the significance and consequences of an alien element introduced into a country or population are profoundly different according to whether that element is 1 per cent or 10 per cent.
The answers to the simple and rational question are equally simple and rational: by stopping, or virtually stopping, further inflow, and by promoting the maximum outflow. Both answers are part of the official policy of the Conservative Party.
It almost passes belief that at this moment 20 or 30 additional immigrant children are arriving from overseas in Wolverhampton alone every week – and that means 15 or 20 additional families a decade or two hence. Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancés whom they have never seen.
Let no one suppose that the flow of dependants will automatically tail off. On the contrary, even at the present admission rate of only 5,000 a year by voucher, there is sufficient for a further 25,000 dependants per annum ad infinitum, without taking into account the huge reservoir of existing relations in this country – and I am making no allowance at all for fraudulent entry. In these circumstances nothing will suffice but that the total inflow for settlement should be reduced at once to negligible proportions, and that the necessary legislative and administrative measures be taken without delay.
I stress the words “for settlement.” This has nothing to do with the entry of Commonwealth citizens, any more than of aliens, into this country, for the purposes of study or of improving their qualifications, like (for instance) the Commonwealth doctors who, to the advantage of their own countries, have enabled our hospital service to be expanded faster than would otherwise have been possible. They are not, and never have been, immigrants.
I turn to re-emigration. If all immigration ended tomorrow, the rate of growth of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population would be substantially reduced, but the prospective size of this element in the population would still leave the basic character of the national danger unaffected. This can only be tackled while a considerable proportion of the total still comprises persons who entered this country during the last ten years or so.
Hence the urgency of implementing now the second element of the Conservative Party’s policy: the encouragement of re-emigration.
Nobody can make an estimate of the numbers which, with generous assistance, would choose either to return to their countries of origin or to go to other countries anxious to receive the manpower and the skills they represent.
Nobody knows, because no such policy has yet been attempted. I can only say that, even at present, immigrants in my own constituency from time to time come to me, asking if I can find them assistance to return home. If such a policy were adopted and pursued with the determination which the gravity of the alternative justifies, the resultant outflow could appreciably alter the prospects.
The third element of the Conservative Party’s policy is that all who are in this country as citizens should be equal before the law and that there shall be no discrimination or difference made between them by public authority. As Mr Heath has put it we will have no “first-class citizens” and “second-class citizens.” This does not mean that the immigrant and his descendent should be elevated into a privileged or special class or that the citizen should be denied his right to discriminate in the management of his own affairs between one fellow-citizen and another or that he should be subjected to imposition as to his reasons and motive for behaving in one lawful manner rather than another.
There could be no grosser misconception of the realities than is entertained by those who vociferously demand legislation as they call it “against discrimination”, whether they be leader-writers of the same kidney and sometimes on the same newspapers which year after year in the 1930s tried to blind this country to the rising peril which confronted it, or archbishops who live in palaces, faring delicately with the bedclothes pulled right up over their heads. They have got it exactly and diametrically wrong.
The discrimination and the deprivation, the sense of alarm and of resentment, lies not with the immigrant population but with those among whom they have come and are still coming.
This is why to enact legislation of the kind before parliament at this moment is to risk throwing a match on to gunpowder. The kindest thing that can be said about those who propose and support it is that they know not what they do.
Nothing is more misleading than comparison between the Commonwealth immigrant in Britain and the American Negro. The Negro population of the United States, which was already in existence before the United States became a nation, started literally as slaves and were later given the franchise and other rights of citizenship, to the exercise of which they have only gradually and still incompletely come. The Commonwealth immigrant came to Britain as a full citizen, to a country which knew no discrimination between one citizen and another, and he entered instantly into the possession of the rights of every citizen, from the vote to free treatment under the National Health Service.
Whatever drawbacks attended the immigrants arose not from the law or from public policy or from administration, but from those personal circumstances and accidents which cause, and always will cause, the fortunes and experience of one man to be different from another’s.
But while, to the immigrant, entry to this country was admission to privileges and opportunities eagerly sought, the impact upon the existing population was very different. For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country.
They found their wives unable to obtain hospital beds in childbirth, their children unable to obtain school places, their homes and neighbourhoods changed beyond recognition, their plans and prospects for the future defeated; at work they found that employers hesitated to apply to the immigrant worker the standards of discipline and competence required of the native-born worker; they began to hear, as time went by, more and more voices which told them that they were now the unwanted.
They now learn that a one-way privilege is to be established by act of parliament; a law which cannot, and is not intended to, operate to protect them or redress their grievances is to be enacted to give the stranger, the disgruntled and the agent-provocateur the power to pillory them for their private actions.
In the hundreds upon hundreds of letters I received when I last spoke on this subject two or three months ago, there was one striking feature which was largely new and which I find ominous.
All Members of Parliament are used to the typical anonymous correspondent; but what surprised and alarmed me was the high proportion of ordinary, decent, sensible people, writing a rational and often well-educated letter, who believed that they had to omit their address because it was dangerous to have committed themselves to paper to a Member of Parliament agreeing with the views I had expressed, and that they would risk penalties or reprisals if they were known to have done so. The sense of being a persecuted minority which is growing among ordinary English people in the areas of the country which are affected is something that those without direct experience can hardly imagine.
I am going to allow just one of those hundreds of people to speak for me:
“Eight years ago in a respectable street in Wolverhampton a house was sold to a Negro. Now only one white (a woman old-age pensioner) lives there. This is her story. She lost her husband and both her sons in the war. So she turned her seven-roomed house, her only asset, into a boarding house. She worked hard and did well, paid off her mortgage and began to put something by for her old age. Then the immigrants moved in. With growing fear, she saw one house after another taken over. The quiet street became a place of noise and confusion. Regretfully, her white tenants moved out.
“The day after the last one left, she was awakened at 7am by two Negroes who wanted to use her ‘phone to contact their employer. When she refused, as she would have refused any stranger at such an hour, she was abused and feared she would have been attacked but for the chain on her door. Immigrant families have tried to rent rooms in her house, but she always refused.
Her little store of money went, and after paying rates, she has less than £2 per week. “She went to apply for a rate reduction and was seen by a young girl, who on hearing she had a seven-roomed house, suggested she should let part of it. When she said the only people she could get were Negroes, the girl said, “Racial prejudice won’t get you anywhere in this country.” So she went home.
“The telephone is her lifeline. Her family pay the bill, and help her out as best they can. Immigrants have offered to buy her house – at a price which the prospective landlord would be able to recover from his tenants in weeks, or at most a few months. She is becoming afraid to go out. Windows are broken. She finds excreta pushed through her letter box. When she goes to the shops, she is followed by children, charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies. They cannot speak English, but one word they know. “Racialist,” they chant. When the new Race Relations Bill is passed, this woman is convinced she will go to prison. And is she so wrong? I begin to wonder.”
The other dangerous delusion from which those who are wilfully or otherwise blind to realities suffer, is summed up in the word “integration.” To be integrated into a population means to become for all practical purposes indistinguishable from its other members.
Now, at all times, where there are marked physical differences, especially of colour, integration is difficult though, over a period, not impossible. There are among the Commonwealth immigrants who have come to live here in the last fifteen years or so, many thousands whose wish and purpose is to be integrated and whose every thought and endeavour is bent in that direction.
But to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one.
We are on the verge here of a change.
Hitherto it has been force of circumstance and of background which has rendered the very idea of integration inaccessible to the greater part of the immigrant population – that they never conceived or intended such a thing, and that their numbers and physical concentration meant the pressures towards integration which normally bear upon any small minority did not operate.
Now we are seeing the growth of positive forces acting against integration, of vested interests in the preservation and sharpening of racial and religious differences, with a view to the exercise of actual domination, first over fellow-immigrants and then over the rest of the population. The cloud no bigger than a man’s hand, that can so rapidly overcast the sky, has been visible recently in Wolverhampton and has shown signs of spreading quickly.
The words I am about to use, verbatim as they appeared in the local press on 17 February, are not mine, but those of a Labour Member of Parliament who is a minister in the present government:
‘The Sikh communities’ campaign to maintain customs inappropriate in Britain is much to be regretted. Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms and conditions of their employment. To claim special communal rights (or should one say rites?) leads to a dangerous fragmentation within society. This communalism is a canker; whether practiced by one colour or another it is to be strongly condemned.’
All credit to John Stonehouse for having had the insight to perceive that, and the courage to say it.
For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish. Here is the means of showing that the immigrant communities can organize to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant and the ill-informed have provided.
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood.”
That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the century.
Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.”
“Via Weasel Zippers, a gesture of solidarity per our two nations’ shared interest in life, liberty, and shooting women in the heart on the street, I guess. Not even a disinvitation to the barbecue on America’s birthday as punishment for killing protesters, huh, Barry? Absolutely the lowest moment of his presidency thus far.
President Barack Obama’s administration said earlier this month it would invite Iran to US embassy barbecues for the national holiday for the first time since the two nations severed relations following the 1979 Islamic revolution.
“There’s no thought to rescinding the invitations to Iranian diplomats,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters. “We have made a strategic decision to engage on a number of fronts with Iran,” Kelly said. “We tried many years of isolation, and we’re pursuing a different path now.”
Colonel Neville: Yep, that would be barbecues and "concern" in between golfing, choosing ice-cream flavours and puppie frolics.
Krauthammer surgically cuts to reality as per usual.
The great and never late Mark Steyn in top form as usual. Obama AKA the Big Zero, the Teenager In Chief and the life-long Marxist Community Activist in the Oval Office, snubs France's Sarkozy and Germany's Merkel but chums up to Hamass and Iran, as you do. Masterstroke there Hussein! You fucking suicidal and monumental clod.
Ah, the murderous Islamic circus geeks in charge of Iran. And North Korea and etc, etc, etc. While hotair is continually updated and Foxnews has continuous Iran coverage, MSNBC has re-runs of this weeks version of the Obama puppies, and their allegedly hilarious comedy. And gee, the Australian media has er, nothing. Hey, let's focus on the real issues like ice-cream flavours and hell, grammar. Should it be "hope and change" or "hoPe & cHanGE?" Like crazy, man!
Via chandlerwatch the madness, gross incompetence and massive fraud that is the Federal Reserve.
More Obama witless Whitehouse gross immaturity via the weeklystandard:
“Am I an old fart or am I right to be pissed that some jackass is skateboarding down the halls of the White House while all this Iranian shit is going down?
We truly have succumbed to the idiocy of the MTV/Mountain Dew/Road Rules backward hat and baggy short culture. Did I miss something, or is the White House the future set for the next Real World? Where are the wallet chains? Is Hot Topic handling our foreign policy? Obama should be grounded for a week for letting Tony Hawk play in OUR house. Where in hell are the adults?
Look: Tony Hawk is in his mid forties. He's a grown man...and he skateboards. Could you imagine your dad or anyone who lived during World War II treating a man who skateboards with anything less than scorn and ridicule? Right now, people are risking their lives for the glimmer of freedom, and Tony Hawk is in the White House tweeting about Frosted Flakes.
Someone please dig up Reagan. I'd take a dead leader with balls over a living camp counselor who wants all the cool kids to like him.What a screaming joke.”
Comment by GasPoweredWiener:
"Let's all go to the burger joint, then we can buy our British pals some kick-ass DVDs at Blockbuster. Oh yeah check this out, dude wouldn't it be totally rad to have the Hawkster skateboarding down the hallways of the White House?
Man, what a cunt Obama is. I'm sorry for the language but I'm just livid, what a fucking joke. If this is what I served my country for he can keep it. That cocksu..."
“Earlier today, Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense: We do have some concerns of they were to launch a missile to the West in the direction of Hawaii. I’ve directed the deployment again of THAD missiles to Hawaii, and the SBX radar has deployed away from Hawaii to provide support.” June 18 2009.
“...know some liberals who are actually perplexed because they can’t figure out what we did wrong to deserve this. Alana on June 19, 2009 at 1:32 PM.
"Insane, isn’t it? The only way we’ll deserve it, is if we do nothing to stop it. Rogue Traveler.
"The last time Kim launched a T-2, in April of this year, the US had plenty of notice. However, Obama and the Pentagon neglected to pull its most sophisticated missile-defense radar out of Pearl Harbor in time to at least exercise it under real-world conditions. At that time, the White House didn’t want to “provoke” Kim by using our defense against the weapons with which Kim explicitly threatened us and our allies in April.
How did that strategy pay off? Ask the people of Hawaii when Kim lights the candle on the next T-2, and see if they would have preferred a test run for those missile-defense systems when we had the chance. We certainly now see why the US needs to keep funding those systems.”
Comment: “Sorry...This is not that big in the context of what is coming. To quote Obaby: ‘You ain’t seen nothin yet’. The Zero is the absolute king of doing nothing when he should do something, and doing something stupid when he should do nothing. Wait til the Norks decide to steal the front page from the Iranians...I look for O-b-s to go out for a walk with the dog, complete with pooper-scooper and little plastic Obama Bag (video at 8). RalphyBoy on June 20, 2009"
“I have been given the responsibility of telling the world what is happening in Iran. The office of Mir Hossein Mousavi, who the Iranian people truly want as their leader, has asked me to do so. They have asked me to tell how Mousavi’s headquarters was wrecked by plainclothes police officers. To tell how the commanders of the revolutionary guard ordered him to stay silent. To urge people to take to the streets because Mousavi could not do so directly.
The people in the streets don’t want a recount of last week’s vote. They want it annulled. This is a crucial moment in our history. Since the 1979 revolution Iran has had 80% dictatorship and 20% democracy. We have dictatorship because one person is in charge, the supreme leader – first Khomeini, now Khamenei. He controls the army and the clergy, the justice system and the media, as well as our oil money."
Craig T: "An adaptation I did of a famous poem about Nazis by Pastor Martin Niemeller. Muslim outrage:
At first, the Muslims were outraged by cartoons but I didn't speak up because I wasn't an artist. And then the Muslims were outraged by history books and news but I didn't speak up because I don't read much. And then the Muslims were outraged by women who weren't completely veiled but I didn't speak up because I'm not a woman. And then the Muslims were outraged by the practice of other religions but I didn't speak up because I'm not very religious. And then the Muslims were outraged by the existence of Infidels so when they came for me...there was no one left to speak up.
The last line is the ultimate goal of Islam the rest are just steps towards that goal.”
“Mark Steyn: No, you know, the interesting thing is that this is the death of Obama’s big speech to the Muslim world in Cairo. You remember during the campaign when he gave his big speech on racism and on race, which was supposed to be the greatest thing since Henry V at Agincourt, the greatest address ever, and that was like dead and inoperative within a few weeks. The same thing has happened to the Cairo speech.
In a sense, they concluded, I think the regime in Tehran concluded from the speech that in effect, they had carte blanche to do what they want, because Obama was so desperate to schmooze them on the nuclear issue.
Now they’re going to go nuclear anyway. This idea that somehow there is this fine calibration that he has to just get the particular poison balance on the high wire act just right, and he’ll achieve all his goals, this is inside the Beltway mumbo-jumbo. In Tehran, they’re doing what they want for internal and regional considerations. And the idea that this has anything to do with Obama getting a nuclear deal is pathetic and irrelevant.”
“President Obama, "some initial reaction from the Supreme Leader that indicates he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election."
"Supreme Leader"? I thought that was official house style for Barack Obama at Newsweek and MSNBC. But no. It's also the title held by Ayatollah Khamenei for the past couple of decades. If it sounds odd from the lips of an American president, that's because none has ever been as deferential in observing the Islamic republic's dictatorial protocol. Like President Obama's deep, ostentatious bow to the king of Saudi Arabia, it signals a fresh start in our relations with the Muslim world, "mutually respectful" and unilaterally fawning.
And how did it go down? At Friday prayers in Tehran, Ayatollah Khamenei attacked "dirty Zionists" and "bad British radio" (presumably a reference to the BBC's Farsi news service rather than the nonstop Herman's Hermits marathon on Supergold Oldies FM). "The most evil of them all is the British government," added the Supreme Leader, warming to his theme. The crowd, including President Ahmadinelandslide and his Cabinet, chanted, "Death to the UK."
Ayatollah Khamenei said Obama's "agents" had been behind the protests: "They started to cause riots in the street, they caused destruction, they burnt houses." But that wasn't all the Great Satan did. "What is the worst thing to me in all this," sighed the Supreme Leader, "are comments made in the name of human rights and freedom and liberty by American officials...What? Are you serious? Do you know what human rights are?"
...in his recent speech in Cairo he applied the same technique. Among his many unique qualities, the 44th president is the first to give the impression that the job is beneath him – that he is too big and too gifted to be confined to the humdrum interests of one nation state. As my former National Review colleague David Frum put it, the Obama address offered "the amazing spectacle of an American president taking an equidistant position between the country he leads and its detractors and enemies."
The Obamessiah's rad drone: “There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground. As the Holy Koran tells us..”
Colonel Neville: Sorry? "Tells us?" Ain't my book. It tells us how insane the Krazy Koran and Islam is, President Boob.
“MIDEAST: TARIQ RAMADAN, 'MUSLIMS WANT RESPECT AND HUMIILITY.'
(ANSAmed) - ROME, JUNE 3 - According to the controversial Swiss intellectual and Islam scholar, Tariq Ramadan, a "change in attitude" and "effective and necessary action", a "real and profound message of respect" but above all "humility" are what the Muslim world expects in the keynote speech that USA President Barack Obama will be making tomorrow in Cairo. In a statement sent to the press via email, Ramadan underlines how Obama has found himself having to "reverse the legacy" left by George W. Bush and his administration, who did not show "respect or fairness towards Muslims". Ramadan points out that, during his election campaign, Obama "often had to repeat that he was not a Muslim, as if that would have posed a problem for the American people".
“A man who allegedly led Ottawa police on a high-speed chase in an SUV and then collided head-on with a police cruiser was released from custody after he claimed diplomatic immunity, officers say. While the suspect’s identity has been kept secret since the crash early Tuesday, CTV News has learned the man is a 30-year-old foreign envoy from Saudi Arabia."
"Published Date: 04 June 2009. A WEST YORKSHIRE couple who subjected their six-week-old baby to a catalogue of abuse and then failed to seek medical help when she contracted meningitis have been jailed for three years today.
Only when the tiny infant's condition was life-threatening did Rizwan Patel and Alliah Bradshaw seek vital treatment. But by that time the baby, known only as Baby H and who was on the at-risk register, had suffered brain damage and was left partially blind, deaf and with cerebral palsy.
She had also suffered two broken legs, which they similarly ignored for three weeks in 2007, despite being told to have the child X-rayed.
University educated Patel, who has no previous convictions, was jailed for a further 18 months after pleading guilty to one count of grievous bodily harm after shaking Baby H so hard she suffered nine broken ribs and a broken collar bone.
The court heard their daughter was on the at-risk register with social services after two other children in Bradshaw's care were taken away from her. The first became known to the authorities when he was rescued from a burning crack den where Bradshaw had left him in the care of drug users while she went out. Luckily he was rescued by fire fighters and was treated for smoke inhalation.
In 2002 he was removed from her care permanently after he was found wandering the streets, partially clothed and covered in his own excrement, while Bradshaw bought drugs in a phone box.
In March 2003 a second child in Bradshaw's care was taken away from her by social services because she was failing to meet his needs due to her excessive drug use.
The court heard that in the case of Baby H both Bradshaw and Patel were receiving regular visits from health and support workers after the child was born in January 2007 until she was taken out of their care on March 6 that year.”
Published Date: 02 June 2009. By Polly Rippon and Richard Marsden.
CRICKET fans watched in horror as a teenager umpiring a South Yorkshire match was allegedly punched, kicked, and hit with stumps by players angry at his call of 'Not out'. Police were called to the Quaid E Azam Sunday Cricket League match between Sheffield Alliance Cricket Club and Bradford Shimla at the Phoenix Ground in Brinsworth, Rotherham. The game was organised by the Quaid E Azam Sunday Cricket League."
June 3, 2009.
"Accused Georgia Tech jihadist wanted to attack U.S. oil facilities "because oil is being stolen from Muslims" Right. The massive transfer of wealth for oil to Islamic countries over the years? It was all Monopoly money."
Colonel Neville: Here's a random collection of Muslims spreading their message of peace and love. You could do collate htese 24/7 and as they say, barely scratch the surface.
2009.06.12 (Hajah, Pal. Auth.) - A 15-year-old boy is hung by his family on a (false) suspicion of his being an Israeli informant.
2009.06.11 (Narathiwat, Thailand) - A Buddhist man and his pregnant wife are brutally shot to death by Islamic terrorists.
2009.06.11 (Narathiwat, Thailand) - Muslim gunmen open fire from a pickup truck, killing a civilian walking to work.
2009.06.10 (Bathaa, Iraq) - Thirty Shiites at an outdoor food market are massacred by Sunni car bombers. Children are among the dead.
2009.06.10 (Pattani, Thailand) - A 43-year-old Buddhist man is murdered by Muslim gunmen.
2009.06.09 (Peshawar, Pakistan) - Shahid car bombers attack a hotel, killing seventeen people in the suicide blast
“MIDEAST:GAZA; HAMAS EXPONENT,OBAMA SINCERE BUT WE NEED DEEDS.
(ANSAmed) - GAZA, June 3 - US president Barack Obama seems "sincere in his wish to change US policy towards the Islamic world in general and the Middle East in particular", but Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip expect "actions" on top of words and shows of good will.
Today ANSA was informed about this by Ahmed Yusef, an official diplomat working for Hamas (the radical Islamic movement that is currently running Gaza) who studied in the USA. Yusef, who is the deputy minister of Foreign Affairs of the self-proclaimed Hamas government in Gaza and premier Ismail Haniyeh's diplomatic advisor, stated that "The speech which Obams will deliver in Cairo could represent first step towards reconciliation between the USA and the Muslim nation. The Islamic world consequently believes that the time has come to use a different language compared to that used by the Bush administration".
“CAIR Calls President’s Cairo Speech ‘Comprehensive, Balanced and Forthright.’
Colonel Neville: The following may have something to do with Obama's entire life as he presents it, being a vipers nest of Marxist activist and Muslim lies. Yes, that could be it.
(ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV, JUNE 4 - The prevailing reaction of Israelis to US President Barack Obama is one of mistrust, feeling that he is biased in favour of the Palestinian cause, shows a survey conducted before the president's open speech to the Muslim world, delivered in Cairo today. According to the survey, conducted by two institutes in the University of Tel Aviv and published today by online press agency Ynet, 60% of the Israeli population do not trust that Obama is able to guarantee the security of the state of Israel.
55% find that his policies favour the Palestinians, as against 31% who adjudge him neutral and a pitiful 5% who think of him as pro-Israel in continuity with the traditional orientation of previous US administrations. At the same time, 65% find the outcome of the recent summit held between Obama and Israeli Premier Benyamin Netanyahu to have been a failure, although 56% are persuaded that Netanyahu has behaved in a balanced way.”
Obama and his dawa:
“His only reference to Jerusalem was a quote from the Koran that describes Moses, Jesus and Mohammed joining together in prayer, and a call for “Jerusalem [to be] a secure home for Jews, Christians and Muslims."
President Obama opened the speech with the Islamic greeting, “Peace unto you” in Arabic and reminded his listeners of his Muslim background. He quoted the Koran several times in his Cairo speech, stating that the Muslim holy book states, “Be conscious of G-d and speak always the truth."
"Muslim shoots Christian in bar over religion of peace: “Simpson says she was so shocked that she blacked out after the first two rounds were fired. When she came around she saw her brother covered in blood. "I said ‘he shot you?’ And he said ‘yeah, he shot me’ and then he fell to the ground," Simpson said.
The victim, who is Christian, was taken to Scripps Mercy Hospital in serious condition but is expected to be okay. The suspect, who Simpson says was of Muslim faith, remains at large.”
Colonel Neville: A er, "British man devoted to the task of stirring up terrorism" encouraged fellow Muslims to murder Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, a court has been told.
Ishaq Kanmi, 23, of Blackburn, Lancashire, is alleged to have called for the elimination of political leaders, with the Prime Minister and his predecessor at the "top of the list".
Colonel Neville: Now they know how many arseholes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
'Our Jihad Isn't Limited to Pakistan and Afghanistan' – That Division is Created By the Jews; 'I Have Declared Voting As Illegitimate'; Pakistan Is Not An Islamic Government – It Has Helped the Jews and Christians; '[In America,] One White Ass Has Gone, A Black Ass Has Taken Over'; 'In 2010, American Will Be Torn To Pieces.'
In an interview held in late February 2009 with Al-Qaeda's media arm, Mullah Nazeer Ahmad, the Emir of the Taliban Mujahideen in Pakistan's tribal district of South Waziristan, stated that the Taliban's jihad will not stop after the U.S. leaves Afghanistan. Ahmad further stressed that the Taliban's jihad is not limited to Pakistan and Afghanistan, as its objectives are global.
“"Our jihad is global and we aim to liberate Muslims across the world, to end the divisions and mischief; [we] want a system of Islamic Shari'a; we want the Law of Allah on Allah's Land...."
“"One white ass has gone; a black ass has taken over in his place. To have any expectations will corrode our belief. We put our trust only in Allah... We cannot expect from Bush or Obama that they will be relief for us. Instead, our difficulties are soothed by jihad."
"We give this message to the Ummah, 'You rise up for jihad.' Fewer people offer sacrifices. Due to the ignorance of the majority, the small number of people too is surrounded in difficulties. If all people rise up for jihad, all problems will be resolved; the rule of Shari'a will be established, our difficulties will vanish;
Islamic revolution will sweep the entire world. But for the sake of money, riches and children, people have settled. Therefore, we call upon the Ummah that our predecessors have waged jihad. The Holy Prophet had waged jihad. The Prophet said: 'Jihad shall continue till the Day of Judgement.'
"The shortest distance to paradise is jihad. It is the journey of the Ummah; [as Prophet Muhammad said] 'The journey of my Ummah is jihad in the path of Allah....'
"Our success lies in martyrdom. Our true victory lies in martyrdom. One should not despair of it. We are with them [those who died during the 2007 military operation in Islamabad's Red Mosque]. Allah willing, we shall avenge them all. We will not spare this [Pervez] Musharraf who has committed this atrocity on the Red Mosque, and killed innocents and students.... The day is not far when Islamabad will be in the hands of Mujahideen...."
French feminists attacked US President Barack Obama's defence of the Islamic veil yesterday, accusing him of dealing a blow to the rights of millions of women in order to appease religious sentiment.
Obama was due to arrive in Paris later in the day, after a Middle East tour in which he gave a speech in which he accused countries like France of hiding "hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism."
France bans girls and young women from wearing Muslim headscarves in state schools, and women's rights campaigners here see its widespread and sometimes compulsory use in the Islamic world as an abuse of women's rights.
One French women's rights group, Ni Putes Ni Soumises ("Neither whores, nor submissives"), said: "Reducing the dialogue between civilisations to a dialogue between religions is once again to instrumentalise women.
"By attacking secularism and defending the veil, the President of the United States [...] has hurt the struggle of millions of women, some of whom pay with their lives every day to escape fundamentalist violence," it said.
Anne Saugier, president of the International Women's Rights League that was founded by Simone de Beauvoir, accused Obama of seeking to reconcile the United States with Muslims "on the backs of women."
"What a slap in the face for those women in Algeria, Iran and Afghanistan who died in atrocious conditions for having refused to wear what they consider the most radical sign of their oppression and segregation," she said."
Colonel Neville: Stupid fat fascist bastard MUSLIM psychopaths are demanding a ban on “impure” children’s toys such as Peppa Pig and Barbie. And some shopping centre stores are already ripping kids’ favourites – said to promote “western values” – from their shelves.
Hardline leaders fear the toys could poison theirchildren against Islam. They have targeted popular kids’ telly character Peppa because it is a pig, an animal they brand “impure”.
Spin-off toys from the Channel Five show have already been banned in Eastern Europe by some Muslim shopkeepers. And fears are growing they will try to bring their campaign to Britain.
Preacher Omar Bakri Muhammad, 51, who is banned from Britain after praising the 9/11 bombings, said it was time for British Muslims to stop western culture corrupting their children’s minds.
He said: “The pig is something forbidden in Islam. It’s impure. Buying a cartoon toy of a pig for a child that they idolise could lead to them growing up in conflict with Islam. People don’t want their children to have something that’s not Islamic.”
Extremists have already banned Peppa Pig dolls from a shopping centre in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Mr Bakri also wants Barbie banned in favour of a range of Islamic toys promoting virginity and women in veils. He said: “Look at the Barbie doll.
“She wears make-up, has a boyfriend, a car – that’s why Muslims don’t buy Barbie toys. I gave my daughter a Fatima Muslim doll.
“We try our best not to let western cultures corrupt our children’s minds.”
A children’s tale based on the Three Little Pigs was rejected for an award last year in case it offended Muslims.
Bakri is planning to bring back his banned Al-Muhajiroun group, which wants to fly “the black flag of Islam over Downing Street”.
Colonel Neville: Ah, the Union Jack is getting tinier with every passing moment.
theopinionator:
“Well it seems that it DOES offend some UNNAMED MET officials who have now banned armed cops at Heathrow Airport from wearing the tiny Union Jack flag badge on their clothing. These Union flag badges have been worn to show support for British military troops. Approximately 70% of these armed cops have served in the Forces and/or have children or other family members currently serving in Afghanistan.
Now who might you imagine would find the British flag as "offensive"? Who might be whining and complaining about it ?? -- Should we suspect muslims and their muslim wannabee sympathizers?
Obama the wunderkind of incompetence:
“Bin Laden's right-hand man Ayman al-Zawahiri earlier urged Egyptians to shun Obama, saying his trip was at the invitation of the "torturers of Egypt" and the "slaves of America."
"His bloody messages were received and are still being received by Muslims, and they will not be concealed by public relations campaigns or by farcical visits or elegant words," Zawahiri said in an Internet audio recording.
He described Obama as "that criminal who came seeking, with deception, to obtain what he failed to achieve on the ground after the mujahedeen ruined the project of the Crusader America in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia."
DUBAI (AFP) - Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden on Wednesday scorned Barack Obama's overture to the Islamic world and warned of decades of conflict, at the start of the US president's Middle East charm offensive.
He accused Obama of "antagonising Muslims" in the same way as his predecessor George W. Bush, in an audiotape aired on Qatar's Al-Jazeera news channel less than an hour after the president landed in Saudi Arabia.
"He has followed the steps of his predecessor in antagonising Muslims ... and laying the foundation for long wars," bin Laden said, referring to deadly clashes in Pakistan between the US-backed government and Islamist militants. "He gave his orders to (Pakistani President Asif Ali) Zardari and his army to prevent the people of Swat from applying Sharia (Islamic) law," he said.
"Obama and his administration have sowed new seeds of hatred against America," said the Al-Qaeda leader whose network carried out the 9/11 attacks in the United States. "Let the American people prepare to harvest the crops of what the leaders of the White House plant in the next years and decades."
In a swift reaction from Obama's Saudi hosts, a government spokesman in Riyadh said the new tape was a sign of the desperation of the fugitive Saudi-born terror mastermind.
"It's an act of desperation," information ministry official Nial al-Jubeir told AFP. "They are still making their statements while hiding in a cave."
Colonel Neville: Balls. Sadly, THAT cheap reply is desperation. Hey, lotsa Muslim men in the West love nothing better than grooming children for under-age sex and rape. Celebrate diversity...
“Six men are on trial accused of sexual offences in Keighley and Skipton, including the “grooming” and rape of a young teenage girl.
The victim, who is now in her late teens, cannot be named for legal reasons. A catalogue of sexual offences are alleged to have been committed against her between April 2005 and April 2007.
The defendants, who face a total of 31 charges – including rape – are Keighley men Mohammed Zackriya, 21, of Springfield Road, Abid Ali, 27, of Cark Road, Shahid Iqbal, 25, of Nightingale Street, Raj Mohammed Shabir, 32, referred to in court as Shabir Junior, of Neville Street, Mohammed Shabir, 36, referred to as Shabir Senior, of Hawk Street, and Mohammed Taj, 37, of Aireview Terrace, Skipton.
The court heard many of the alleged incidents took place at Caesars Pizza takeaway shop in Newmarket Street, Skipton, which is owned by Shabir Senior.
Taj, Iqbal and Shabir Junior all worked there at the time of the offences. Zackriya and Ali, who are cousins, both worked for Skipton and Craven Taxis, which has an office in Sackville Street, Skipton, where some of the offences are said to have been committed."
"PAKISTAN: MUSLIM FORCES 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL TO CONVERT, MARRY HIM.
Police ridicule Christian mother for kidnapping complaint; others demand money, labor.
LAHORE, Pakistan, June 4 (Compass Direct News) – The Christian mother of a 12-year-old girl in Punjab Province who was kidnapped, coerced into converting to Islam and forcibly married to a 37-year-old Muslim hopes to recover her daughter at a court hearing next week.
The reaction of Pakistani law enforcement authorities to Sajida Masih’s complaint so far – ridiculing her and asserting that there is nothing she can do because her daughter is now a Muslim – does not encourage her hopes of recovering her daughter Huma at next Thursday’s (June 11) hearing. Masih said that Muhammad Imran abducted Huma at gunpoint on Feb. 23 from Hanif Kot village in Gujranwala district, forcibly converted her and then married her.
Imran, father of three children, has since disappeared along with his first wife, children and new child-bride. Another land owner, Karamat Ali Saroyya, called Masih saying that Huma was in Muridke, but Masih and her lawyer were unable to find her there. Saroyya later demanded that Masih work his fields for one year to get her daughter back
Colonel Neville: Hey, I got a postcard! "Beatings From Koran School! Wish You Were Here!"
An imam in a mosque in Drammen (Norway) was charged last Thursday for violence, for beating several children at a koran school with a cane or stick. The abuse happened if children came too late, didn't manage to learn their koran homework or were restless, according to Drammens Tidende.
According to the newspaper the police suspect that the imam was violent against the children at several mosques. NRK reports that the police are investigating three mosques in the Drammen district, after one school in Drammen told the police that the children were afraid of being beaten in the mosque.
The suspicions against the imam are based on information from several children ages 6 to 12. The information come in the form of reports of concern from the school or as anonymous tips from concerned parents.
Due to the fear of reprisals, no parent dared step forward.
"He beat them on the hands and the back. The children expressed fear, and they are scared and dread going to the koran school. They know what awaits them,' says Nina Bjørlo of the Drammen police to NRK.
...The police also suspects that the heads of several koran schools made use of the same punishment methods”
